Reviews
"Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks'' new novel, March , is a very great book....Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist''s license."- Beth Kephart , Chicago Tribune "A beautifully wrought story....Gripping....A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues."-Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Honorable, elegant and true."- John Freeman , The Wall Street Journal "Harrowing and moving...In her previous book, Year of Wonders , Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. March has all the same virtues...casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it."- Karen Joy Fowler , The Washington Post World "Wholly original...deeply engaging."- Ron Charles , The Christian Science Monitor "Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased." - The Economist, "Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March , is a very great book....Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist's license."-- Beth Kephart , Chicago Tribune "A beautifully wrought story....Gripping....A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues."--Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Honorable, elegant and true."-- John Freeman , The Wall Street Journal "Harrowing and moving...In her previous book, Year of Wonders , Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. March has all the same virtues...casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it."-- Karen Joy Fowler , The Washington Post World "Wholly original...deeply engaging."-- Ron Charles , The Christian Science Monitor "Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased." -- The Economist, "Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March , is a very great book....Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist's license."--Beth Kephart, Chicago Tribune "A beautifully wrought story....Gripping....A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues."--Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Honorable, elegant and true."--John Freeman, The Wall Street Journal "Harrowing and moving...In her previous book, Year of Wonders , Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. March has all the same virtues...casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it."--Karen Joy Fowler, The Washington Post World "Wholly original...deeply engaging."--Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor "Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet."-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased."-- The Economist, "Brilliant...Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March , is a very great book....Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist's license."- Beth Kephart , Chicago Tribune "A beautifully wrought story....Gripping....A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues."-Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Honorable, elegant and true."- John Freeman , The Wall Street Journal "Harrowing and moving...In her previous book, Year of Wonders , Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. March has all the same virtues...casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it."- Karen Joy Fowler , The Washington Post World "Wholly original...deeply engaging."- Ron Charles , The Christian Science Monitor "Inspired... A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased." - The Economist